CIHM 

ICIVIH 

Microfiche 

Collection  de 

Series 

microfiches 

(Monographs) 

(monographies) 

Canadian  Institute  for  Historical  Microraproductions  /  Institut  Canadian  da  microraproductions  historiquas 


Technical  and  Bibliographic  Notes  /  Notes  techniques  et  bibliographiques 


The  Institute  has  attempted  to  obtain  the  best  original 
copy  available  for  filming.  Features  of  this  copy  which 
may  be  bibliographically  unique,  which  may  alter  any  of 
the  images  in  the  reproduction,  or  which  may 
significantly  change  the  usual  method  of  filming  are 
checked  below. 

0  Coloured  covers  / 
Couverture  de  couleur 

□   Covers  damaged  / 
Couverture  endommagte 

□   Covers  restored  and/or  laminated  / 
Couverture  restaurde  et/ou  pellicul^e 

I         Cover  title  missing  /  Le  titre  de  couverture  manque 

I Coloured  maps  /  Cartes  gdographiques  en  couleur 

0   Coloured  ink  (i.e.  other  than  blue  or  black)  / 
Encre  de  couleur  (i.e.  autre  que  bleue  ou  noire) 

□   Coloured  plates  and/or  illustrations  / 
Planches  et/ou  illustrations  en  couleur 

Bound  with  other  material  / 
Reli^  avec  d'autres  documents 

Only  edition  available  / 
Seule  Edition  disponible 

Tight  binding  may  cause  shadows  or  distortion  along 
interior  margin  /  La  reliure  serrte  peut  causer  de 
I'ombre  ou  de  la  distorsion  le  long  de  la  marge 
int^rieure. 

Blank  leaves  added  during  restorations  may  appear 
within  the  text.  Whenever  possible,  these  have  been 
omitted  from  filming  /  II  se  peut  que  certaines  pages 
blanches  ajout^es  lors  d'une  restauration 
apparaissent  dans  le  texte,  mais,  lorsque  cela  6tait 
possible,  ces  pages  n'ont  pas  616  film^s. 

Additional  comments  / 
Commontaires  suppl^mentaires: 


D 
D 
D 


D 


D 


L'Institut  a  microfilm^  le  meilleur  exemplaire  qu'il  lui  a 
6\6  possible  de  se  procurer.  Les  details  de  cet  exem- 
plaire qui  sont  peut-6tre  uniques  du  point  de  vue  bibli- 
ographique,  qui  peuvent  modifier  une  image  reproduite, 
ou  qui  peuvent  exiger  une  modification  dans  la  m^tho- 
de  normale  oo  filmage  sont  indiqu^s  ci-dessous. 

I     I  Coloured  pages  /  Pages  de  couleur 

I I   Pages  damaged  /  Pages  endommag6es 


D 


Pages  restored  and/or  laminated  / 
Pages  restaur^s  et/ou  pellicul^es 


Q   Pages  discoloured,  stained  or  foxed  / 
Pages  ddcolortes,  tachet^es  ou  piques 

I      I   Pages  detached  /  Pages  d6tach6es 

I  y\   Showthrough  /  Transparence 

I      I  Quality  of  print  varies  / 


D 
D 


D 


Quality  indgale  de  limpression 

Includes  supplementary  material  / 
Comprend  du  materiel  suppl^mentaire 

Pages  wholly  or  partially  obscured  by  errata  slips, 
tissues,  etc.,  have  been  refilmed  to  ensure  the  best 
possible  image  /  Les  pages  totalement  ou 
partiellement  obscurcies  par  un  feuillet  d'errata,  une 
pelure,  etc.,  ont  6\6  film^s  k  nouveau  de  fa^on  k 
obtenir  la  meilleure  image  possible. 

Opposing  pages  with  varying  colouration  or 
discolourations  are  filmed  twice  to  ensure  the  best 
possible  image  /  Les  pages  s'opposant  ayant  des 
colorations  variables  ou  des  decolorations  sont 
film^es  deux  fois  afin  d'obtenir  la  meilleure  image 
possible. 


Thi«  Ham  i>  filmed  at  the  reduction  ratio  chaclcad  below  / 

Ce  document  eat  film4  au  taux  de  rMuction  IndiquA  ci-deaaoua. 

lOx                            14x                           18x 

22x 

26x 

30x 

1 

J 

12x 

16x 

20x 

a4x 

28x 

32x 

The  copy  film«d  h«r«  has  b««n  reproduced  thanks 
to  tha  gonarosity  of: 


L'axamplaira  filmA  fut  raproduit  grica  k  la 
g*n*rositi  da: 


National  Library  of  Canada 


Bibliotheque  nationale  du  Canada 


Tha  imagas  appearing  hara  ara  tha  bast  quality 
possible  considering  the  condition  and  legibility 
of  the  original  copy  and  in  keeping  with  the 
filming  contract  apecificationa. 


Las  images  suivantas  ont  *t4  reproduites  avac  la 
plus  grand  soin.  compta  tenu  de  la  condition  at 
de  la  nettati  de  rexemplaira  film*,  at  an 
conformity  avac  lea  conditions  du  contrat  da 
filmaga. 


Original  copies  in  printed  paper  covera  are  filmed 
beginning  with  the  front  cover  and  ending  on 
the  last  page  with  a  printed  or  illustrated  imprea- 
sion,  or  the  back  cover  when  appropriate.  All 
other  original  copies  are  filmed  beginning  on  the 
first  pege  with  a  printed  or  illustrated  imprea- 
sion,  and  ending  on  the  last  page  with  a  printed 
or  illuatrated  impresaion. 


The  laat  recorded  frame  on  eech  microfiche 
shall  contain  the  symbol  — ^  (meaning  "CON- 
TINUED"), or  tha  symbol  ▼  (meaning  "END"), 
whichever  appliea. 


Las  exemplairaa  originaux  dont  la  couvarture  an 
papier  eat  imprim4e  sont  filmis  en  commanqant 
par  la  premier  plat  at  an  terminant  soit  par  la 
darni^re  page  qui  comporta  una  empreinta 
d'impression  ou  d'illustration.  soit  par  la  second 
plat,  salon  la  cas.  Tous  las  autres  axemplairas 
originaux  sont  filmte  tn  commandant  par  la 
premiere  page  qui  comporta  una  empreinte 
d'impreasion  ou  d'illustration  at  an  terminant  par 
la  darniire  page  qui  comporte  une  telle 
empreinte. 

Un  dea  symbolas  suivants  spparaitra  sur  la 
darniire  image  de  cheque  microfiche,  salon  la 
cas:  la  symbols  —^signifie  "A  SUIVRE".  le 
symbols  ▼  signifie  "FIN". 


Mapa,  plates,  charts,  etc.,  may  be  filmed  at 
different  reduction  ratios.  Those  too  large  to  be 
entirely  included  in  one  exposure  ere  filmed 
beginning  in  the  upper  left  hand  corner,  left  to 
right  and  top  to  bottom,  as  many  frames  aa 
required.  The  following  diagrams  illustrate  the 
method: 


Les  cartaa.  planches,  tableaux,  etc..  peuvent  itre 
filmis  *  des  taux  da  reduction  diffirants. 
Lorsque  le  document  est  trop  grand  pour  &tra 
reproduit  en  un  seul  ciich*,  il  est  filmi  i  partir 
da  Tangle  supirieur  gauche,  da  gauche  i  droita, 
at  de  haut  en  bas,  an  prenant  la  nombre 
d'imagea  nicassaire.  Las  diagrammes  suivants 
illustrent  la  mAthoda. 


1 

2 

3 

1 

2 

3 

4 

5 

6 

*«aOCOfY   RfSOlUTION   TBT  CHA«T 

(ANSI  and  ISO  TEST  CHART  No.  2) 


ki  12.8 

Hi 

1" 

u 

H^ 

^    APPLIED  IIVMGE 


1653   EosI    Main   Street 

???i?'\l'i  ''••   ^°''''         '♦609       USA 
(716)   482  -  0300  -  Phone 
(716)    288-5989  -Fa, 


-t  -««-   <^ 


f 


.f.l 


.r7  i 
.. .  I 


EARTH  DEITIES 


PSYCHE 


Copyright  hy  Falk 


EARTH  DEITIES 

AND  OTHER  RHYTHMIC  MASQUES 


BY 


BLISS  CARMAN  AND 
MARY  PERRY  KING 


NEW  YORK 

MITCHELL  KENNERLEY 

1914 


^7^  El 


o 


Copy  rig/it  1(^14  by 
Mitchell  Kennerley 


44961 


C  p^nr'iN.  tr^ 


\pO  0  '^^'^  \ 


The  dramatic  rights  for  acting  and 
reading  of  Earth  Deities  and  Other 
Masques,  together  with  its  music,  pan- 
tomime and  dances,  may  be  had  of  the 
authors. 


J«N  -5  1925 


TO  MRS.  A.  M.  MOSHER 
rriTH  AFFECTION  DEEP  AND  WIDE 


CONTENTS 


Dance  Diurnal 
Earth  Deities 
Children  of  the  Year 
Pas  de  Trois 


FAOn 

I 

SI 

71 


m 


1 


THE  DANCE  DIURNAL. 


PERSONS  IN  THE  DANCE 

A  Sibyl,  who  chants  the  Prologue. 

Voices  off  Scene. 
Night. 
Day. 

Shine,  son  of  Day. 

Shadow,  daughter  of  Night. 

A  small  wild  valley  among  majestic  hills. 
r>m  purple  shadows  break  in  wooded  crests, 
^Vhere  lonely  peaks  support  the  arch  of  sky  - 
An  amphitheatre  canopied  with  stars. 
Above  the  waiting  valley's  lilied  floor 
Just  clear  of  the  invading  oak  and  pine 
The  low  outcropping  of  a  granite  ledge 
Breaks  through  the  soil  knee-high  and  ringed 
^th  fern, 

A  rocky  islet  in  the  waving  grass. 

I 


i 

1 


EARTH   DF.rriFS 


''!  I 


1 


To  this  still  outpost  in  the  vahlcruess, 
Shv:.moving,  rapt  in  thought,  a  Sibyl  comes, 
^"d  halts  to  stand  at  gaze  across  the  scene  ~- 
Vetled  in  the  purple  gray  of  forest  houghs, 
f  '''''''''  fi(f"'''  f^'ll  <^nd  grave,  and  dim 
Save  for  .  \e  glotang  eyes  as  dark  as  earth 
And  voice  reverberant  as  a  haunted  reed. 

There  in  prophetic  v.sion  of  the  dusk, 
She  who  has  pondered  on  the  scroll  of  life 
And  looked  upon  the  hour-glass  of  the  years 
Running  away  its  glittering  living  sands 
That  shall  not  cease  while  sun  and  stars  endure 
Foresees  the  gladdening  of  the  dawn  and  chants, 
Accompanied  by  voices  of  the  Dusk, 
The  prologue  of  the  Dance  of  Night' and  Day. 
iheir  chorus  rises  through  the  changing  Light 
And  Night,  in  purplish  blue  zdth  star,  of  gold 
Is  dimly  seen  to  cross  the  glade  and  wait 
Beside  the  exit  to  the  fFest,  while  Day 
Enters  with  tranquil  power  in  gleaming  gray 
Night  turns.     They  meet  and  dance,  cross  and 
recrc  rs, 

mth    hythmic  interchange  of  come  and  go, 
As  vague  as  the  procedure  of  a  dream. 


w' 


THE   DANCE   DIURNAL 


Then  enters  from  the  East  in  sunlit  gold 
Immortal  Shine.     And  Shadozv  from  the  side 
Of  vanishing  Night  emerges  suddenly 
And  runs  to  meet  him  in  her  lilac  robe. 
These  youthful  shapes  of  joy  and  tenderness, 
ff^tth  all  the  ecstasy  of  kindling  life, 
Dance  the  bright  dance  of  Noon,  while  Day 

looks  on, 
A  putient  sentinel  among  the  trees. 

As  Day  moves  Westward,  in  the  lessening 
light 

Shine  wearies  and  his  ardent  dancing  flags 
Surrendering  in  a  last  caress.    In  the  East 
Night  reappears;  and  straightway  tarrying  Day 
^M  Shine  and  Shadow  with  returning  Night 
Tread  the  soft  dance  of  twilight  and  of  dew. 
rhen  tn  the  final  tableau  of  the  dusk, 
Shine  turns  away  to  thread  the  Wesiern  wood 
And  where  Day  with  remembering  eyes  look's 
back. 

Eastward  moves  Night  with  Shadow  on  her 

breast. 
Then  rising  with  a  rapt  and  lonely  chant, 
The  Sibyl  slowly  passes  from  the  scene.  ' 


»• 


EARTFI    DEITIES 


The  Sibyi 

( Doun  left  front  uhilc  action  goes  on  up  stage. ) 

(Night  moves  slowly  across  stage.) 

Here  blue-robed  and  sovereign  Night, 
Sandalled  with  mysterious  might, 

Shrouded  in  her  star-sown  veil, 
Passes  where  the  moon  grows  pale, 

Going  slowly  down  the  west 
On  her  immemorial  quest. 

(Day  enters  and  approaches  Night.) 

Then  upon  the  Road  of  Years 
Day  unheralded  appears, 

Confident  master  of  the  way, 
Strong,  inscrutable,  and  gray, 

With  the  light  of  Paradise 
In  his  undefeated  eyes. 

Witching  Night  in  her  retreat 
Tarries  on  reluctant  feet. 


^! 


Tin:  D.wn:  niirRXAL 


Tenderly,  for  by  these  two 
Heaven  and  earth  arc  made  anew. 

(They  dance.) 
No*:  an  atom  but  must  sway 
To  the  rhythm  of  Night  and  Day. 

{Davin  lights  appear  and  change) 
New-born  colors  wake  and  stir, 
Light  and  sheer  as  gossamer, 

Over  meadow,  stream,  and  grove, 
Lilac,  lavender,  and  mauve. 

Flushing  crimsons  flood  and  change 
O'er  the  summits  range  on  range, 

As  with  magic  to  and  fro 
The  diurnal  dancers  go, 

Moving  in  a  slow  pavane 
Older  than  the  breed  of  man. 

{Light  grows  to  a  golden  glow  centring  where 
Shine  enters) 

Then  below  the  paling  stars 
Time  lets  down  the  glowing  bars 


I 


EARTH   DEITIES 

From  the  portal  of  the  East, 
And  a  thousand  spears  released 
Usher  In  the  Son  of  Day. 
On  his  shining  princely  way. 

(Enter  Shine.) 
Ouick  to  meet  him  from  the  West. 
Steahng  from  her  mother'    breast, 

(Enter  Shadow.) 
Shadow  in  smoke-pale  attire 
Flutters  'neath  his  cloak  of  fire. 

(Night  slowly  exits.) 
O  departing  Night  and  kind. 
Fhou  must  ever  leave  behind 

Lovely  Shadow  here  to  play 
With  the  radiant  child  of  Day  I 

(Day  remains  cclmlv  cm  r/v.«^ 

And  what  dancers  are  these  two. 
^hme  and  Shadow,  gold  and  blue  I 
He  is  straighter  than  a  reed- 
She  is  light  ..s  thistle  seed. 


THE   DANCE   DIURNAL 


Where  he  m.  ves  on  peak  or  hollow, 
Unreluctant  she  will  follow. 

All  along  the  river's  hem 
Golden  ripples  dance  with  them, 

While  they  lead  the  racing  hours 
Down  the  aisles  o(  nodding  flowers. 

Through  the  forest  glad  and  green 
Lightly  lilts  their  baladine. 

He  is  reckless  in  his  pride, 
As  she  dances  by  his  side. 

Ah,  but  he  must  fail  at  length, 
In  his  glory  and  his  strength, 

Like  the  passing  race  of  men 
While  she  grows  but  greater  then, 

Bending  all  her  beauty  o'er  him 
In  the  twilight  to  adore  him ! 


{Re-enter  l^lGHT) 

Now  the  star  of  evening  burns 
And  the  grave-eyed  Night  returns, 


8 


EARTH   DEITIES 


To  rejoin  departing  Day; 
Shine  and  Shadow  still  delay; 

And  they  tread  the  saraband 
Of  the  twilight  hand  in  hand, 

{Dance  of  four.) 

Weaving  figures  in  the  dusk 
Redolent  of  rose  and  musk. 

But  across  the  Western  hill 
Shine  must  pass,  a  wanderer  still, 

{Exit  Shine) 

Where  Day  in  a  little  while 
Follows  with  unwearying  smile, 

{Exit  Day) 

As  soft  Shadow  sinks  from  sight 
On  the  dreamful  heart  of  Night. 

(Night  and  Shadow  begin  their  ex>it  together 
as  slowly  as  possible) 

So  I  too  must  take  my  way 
Down  the  road  of  Night  and  Day, 


THE   DANCE   DIURNAL 


With  the  music  in  my  ears 

Of  the  dancing  of  the  spheres. 

The  Sibyl  makes  her  exit,  leaving  Night  and 
Shadow  still  moving  slowly  on  their  course. 

Curtain 


t.. 


i 


'  i 


EARTH  DEITIES 


EARTH  DEITIES 


PERSONS  IN  THE  MASQUE 

A  Student 

Vertumnus 

Iris 

Syrinx 

Fauna 

Psyche 

Beroe 

Ceres 

Bacchante 

Pomona 

Daphne 

An  open  place  at  the  foot  of  a  wooded  hill 
on  a  spring  morning.  The  trees  are  in  their 
young  green.  The  wild  cherry  is  in  blossom. 
At  the  back  of  the  glade,  just  clear  of  the 
circling  wood,  is  a  large  square  granite  bowl- 
der, curiously  shaped  like  an  ancient  altar,  and 
restinn  upon  an  outcropping  ledge  which  forms 

13 


)': 


1'  i  I 


^ EARTH  DEITIES 

a  rude  step  around  its  base     It  h  A    u      l 
^  wanderwg  „ude„,  enters 

"""'  •"'^'-Prelhg  ,heir  motion. 

The  lines  of  Syrinx  and  Ceres  n,n.  /. 

,7""  ^^-""^  ^  "■""  »".•  *.  .«„^  or  poll 
hsea  .otces  j.,st  off  scene.  PoLj!,Z 
maybe  su„g  partly  by  herself  and  partly  b, 
danang  chorus  of  harvesters,    ujjl  r 

THE    STUDENT 

Thr,'  T;  ^'  *'  «^""  '""  -"*-ng  road 
That  leads  fron,  the  town  to  the  gods' !bod'_ 

Totl,e  ancient  shadowy  place  apart, 

Where  spnng  i,  born  in  the  woodland's  heart, 


EARTH   DEITIES 


And  oyer  and  over  the  ages  through 
The  spirit  of  joy  is  made  anew. 

0  world  of  glory  and  toil  and  gleam. 
Made  out  of  passion  and  dust  and  dream  I 
On  the  gladsome  quest  by  my  student  vow, 

1  am  come  to  this  threshold  of  beauty  now, 

Where  Nature  sits  with  inscrutable  eyes 
Guarding  her  temple  of  mysteries. 

Who  knows  but  the  magical  master  key, 
As  Plotinus  taught,  may  be  ecstasy, 

And  led  by  the  sheer  elation  of  love 
And  the  intuitions  we  cannot  prove,— 

We  may  pass  in  a  moment  fleet  and  fine 
into  the  realm  of  the  divine  I 

In  such  a  grove  when  the  world  was  young 
Great  hymns  to  the  god  of  the  wood  were  sung. 

And  worshippers  in  procession  came 

With  garlands  and  pipes  to  praise  his  name. 

Before  ever  the  world  grew  sad  and  cold, 
When  beauty  its  eloquent  story  told 


15 


Jl^ 


;. 


.11 
II' 

i 

n 


li'i 


'■  i-'i 


MMH^ita^iJiM 


•offRss^ 


! 

V  ! 
i 


i6 


EARTH   DEITIES 


In  movement  and  rhythm  and  color  and  line, 
Where  sense  could  interpret  and  heart  ditine 

The  hidden  purpose,  the  ceaseless  power. 
Enhancing  the  fair  world  hour  by  hour. 

Is  it  so  idle  to  believe 

That  unfearing  rapture  may  perceive, 

Where  the  wonder  rests  on  river  and  tree, 
The  form  and  features  of  deity? 

To  the  doubt-free  soul  even  now  and  here 
What  radiant  presence  might  appear. 

Living  and  warm,  in  ^he  very  guise 
It  wore  in  the  glad  young  centuries  I 

This  old  gray  stone  might  almost  be 
The  altar  of  some  divinity. 

Behold,  I  come  with  gifts  in  hand. 
As  ancient  usages  demand. 

And  wreathe  the  stone  and  lift  the  prayer 
That  cV.^11  the  suppliant's  faith  declare. 

O  Spirits  of  Earth,  will  ye  not  draw  near. 
If  the  gift  be  clean  and  the  heart  sincere? 


EARTH   DEITIES 


17 


Come  forth  in  loveliness  and  power 
And  touch  with  elory  the  present  hour  I 

Vertumnus  appears  among  the  trees  on  the 
rising  ground,  above  the  aUar,  and  as  he  speaks 
descends  and  lays  a  hand  upon  a  corner  of  the 
stone.    At  his  approach  The  Student  seeks 
to  conceal  himself  behind  a  tree. 

Vertumnus 
Vertumnus  am  I,  of  the  turning  year. 
I  wake  in  the  valleys,  and  spring  draws  near. 

I  sweep  in  the  veils  of  purple  rain 

Where  the  woodland  pomps  come  back  again. 

When  the  blackbird  shows  his  scarlet  wing, 
And  all  the  watery  marshes  ring, 

I  lift  the  chorus  near  and  far 
Through  violet  eves  to  the  yellow  star. 

I  am  the  ardor  of  light  and  sun. 

For  me  the  sap  and  the  well-springs  run. 

I  sweeten  the  honey  for  murmuring  bees 
In  the  golden  blooms  of  the  willow  trees. 


1'/ 


>f| 


f! 


li 


'  M 


m 


.  i 


AaiMi 


^   \ 


i8 


EARTH    DEITIES 


[    »  i 


I  fill  the  mellow  breast  of  earth 
With  fire  that  brings  all  fruits  to  birth. 

The  sweet  wild  cherry,  the  budding  vine, 
And  the  seed  in  the  garden  ground  are  mine. 

Where'er  through  the  woodland  ways  I  tread, 
The  answering  wmdflower  lifts  its  head; 

I  look  to  the  orchard  boughs,  and  lo, 
They  break  into  blossom  white  as  snow. 

For  all  my  earthlings  are  dear  to  me, 
And  gay  in  their  kinship  with  deity. 

He  turns  and  disappears  among  the  trees. 

The  Student  {reappearing) 

Ah,  youth  everlasting,  pass  not  so 

From  the  world  of  shadows !   Let  me  know 

The  secret  of  thy  perennial  power 
Bringing  the  ardors  of  life  to  flower! 

Here  under  heaven's  tent  of  blue 

Teach  me  earth's  sorceries  one  day  through ! 

Here  to  the  song  of  the  morning  stream, 
While  leaves  play  softly  and  meadows  dream. 


The  south  wiml  signals    rh,.  -)„  i 

The  dawn.|i,-h,s  ,h  '"^  »''.->.lo„-»  change, 

range,  "'    "    "'""    ^''""^» 

As  though  ,o  usher  upon  the  scene 
Of  all  th„  „,agic_,„  ,„y  q^^^_^ 

Ho-v  w  I,  I  ^„„^  .__  ^^^  1^^^^^,^ 

What  thy  „,oving  loveliness  means  ,o  say' 

STetfn'/r';"''''"^'''  ''■-'''' -d  flow 

se"se  and  feeling  come  and  go. 

As  ^he  lift  and  swing  of  the  moving  sea 
Break  into  audible  harmony. 

So  every  stir  of  thy  beauty  sings 
Unspoken  and  ineffable  things. 

Iris 
A  dweller  among  the  hill-tops, 
A  wanderer  over  the  plain, 


i.  :  .  •  ' 

f  ■■'' 


Jli 


li 


'II 


20 


KARTII    DEITIES 


I  am  the  soul  of  color, 
I  am  the  Iris  of  rain. 

Enchantress  of  water  and  fire, 
Where  I  pass  in  a  radiant  hour. 
The  tree-tops  mist  into  verdure. 
The  meadows  spring  into  flower. 

I  am  the  iridescence 
Hid  in  the  bowl  of  glass; 
The  glamour  of  light  and  shadow, 
The  glory  of  things  that  pass. 

I  rim  the  far  horizon 
With  magic  of  melting  hues; 
I  spill  on  the  painted  desert 
My  yellows  and  roses  and  blues. 

I  am  the  shine  and  sparkle 
Where  combers  break  and  flee 
In  beryl  and  jade  and  azure, — 
The  glitter  and  gloom  of  the  sea. 

I  dance  on  the  dazzling  snow-drift, 
I  flash  in  the  quick  sunshower, 
I  am  the  halo  of  joyance, 
I  am  the  jewel  of  power. 


IvARTII    DFirrES 


21 


I  reign  o'er  the  fairy  ice-storm, 
^reside  over  winter's  dream, 
To  color  his  pallid  splendor 
With  magical  fire  and  gleam. 

I  burn  in  the  heart  of  the  opal, 
I  melt  in  the  sphere  of  the  dew, 
I  sleep  on  the  lake's  still  mirior, 
I  lurk  in  the  icy  blue. 

When  the  feet  of  the  legions  of  thunder 
And  the  spears  of  the  lightning  have  passed 
Through  the  echoing  gates  of  the  mountains, 
Shadowy,  threatening,  and  vast, 

I  rise  undefeated  behind  them. 
As  only  the  rapturous  can. 
And  spring  for  a  signal  of  triumph 
My  arch  of  the  airy  span. 

Liffhts  uliicli  have  been  phiyUig  about  Iris 
ditrbig  this  scene  form  a  rainbozv  as  she  dis- 
appears to  the  left. 

The  Student 

So  earth  is  held  in  expectant  trance, — 
Enchanted  by  sheer  radiance. 


f 


1 


if 


22 


EARTH   DEITIES 


II 


: 


i 
f 


II 


M 


Hark!   Hath  the  silence  not  a  call? 
Out  of  the  low  wind's  lift  and  fall, 

Wonder  emerges  in  throb  and  tone 
With  transport  of  meaning,— music's  own. 

My  heart  is  made  like  a  cunning  shell 
Where  answering  echoes  wake  and  dwell, 

Interpreting  the  rhythm  and  cry 
Of  every  beauty  passing  by. 

O  mystic  life  of  this  lovely  morn, 
How  is  thy  magic  of  music  born? 

Syrinx  is  disclosed  in  a  clump  of  reeds  at 
the  left,  and  The  Student  drops  upon  one 
knee  before  her. 

Syrinx 
I  am  Syrinx,  soul  of  the  reed. 
In  me  the  music  of  earth  is  freed. 

The  immortal  cadence  all  men  know 
Lurks  at  my  lip;  but  a  gr  J  must  blow. 

Since  first  I  was  found  and  wooed  by  Pan, 
I  have  taught  the  rhythm  of  life  to  man. 


I'i 


wx,:l 


EARTH   DEITIES 


J3 

In  the  flush  of  dawn  when  the  meadows  gleam, 
1  flute  for  joy  to  the  wandering  stream, 

Till  the  th.ushes  open  their  golden  throats 
-'  o  echo    he  thrill  of  my  reedy  notes. 

The  grass-heads  bend  and  the  branches  sway. 
And  the  traveller  lingers  beside  the  way, 

As  I  turn  my  lilt  with  the  dying  fall, 
And  the  field-lark  answers  my  eerie  call. 
When  only  the  dry  cicada  sings. 
And  the  sultry  locust  claps  his  wings. 

In  the  languorous  heat  I  drowse  and  swoon 
At  the  burning  touch  of  the  dreaming  noon, 

Or  swing  with  the  sailing  wind  and  sigh 
For  the  pageant  of  summer  passing  by. 

When  the  full  moon  rises  frail  and  large 
And  shadows  steal  from  the  wooded  marge. 

In  many  a  valley  I  answer  the  drone 
Of  little  rivers  lost  and  lone, 

Till  my  head  is  bowed  and  I  rock  with  them 
Under  the  Twilight's  purple  hem. 


I 


ii 


I  i 


.  \\ 


m 


24 


EARTH    DEITIES 


I 

|f 

I 
I 
f 


f  ^ 


5 


Where  all  tunes  out  of  the  ancient  heart, 

Sorrow  and  longing  and  love, — are  part 

Of  the  infinite  music  made  fc-  man 

By  a  breath  of  life  and  the  Hute  of  Pan. 

Syrinx  disappears  through  the  woods  to  the 
left,  piping,  while  The  Student  rises  as  if  to 
follow  her. 

The  Student 
Immori-al  music,  turn  not  yet! 
With  grateful  tears  my  eyes  are  wet 

For  that  sheer  loveliness  of  thine, 
The  pure  cool  touch  of  the  tone  divine. 

{A  wild  rabbit  crosses  the  scene.) 

Sec  how  the  wild  things  haste  to  hear 
The  call  of  rapture  that  knows  no  fear! 

O  creatures  with  eyes  as  clear  as  dew, 
Is  there  a  heart  that  cares  for  you. 

Beating  somewhere  within  the  wild 

With  fostering  love  for  a  feckless  child, — 


ii 


EARTH   DEITIES 


25 


An  all-kind  mother,  as  men  suppose, 
Ready  with  solace  for  all  our  woes? 

Fauna  comes  qui  upon  the  scene  from 
the  left  holding  back  a  large  zvhite  zvolf hound. 
1  HE  Student  approaches,  extending  a  friendly 
hand  to  them. 

Fauna 

Men  call  me  kind,  because  I  know 
The  needs  of  all  who  come  and  go. 

All  living  creatures  of  the  earth, 
Sorry  and  glad,  are  mine  from  birth, 

'^o  guard  by  night,  to  guide  by  day, 
-o  cherish  in  their  guileless  play. 

I  give  them  strength,  and  make  them  free 
In  impulse  and  in  symmetry. 

My  life  throbs  with  them,  as  the  tide 
Throbs  in  the  ocean's  heaving  side. 

Like  wind  we  wander  as  we  will. 
By  watered  plain  or  shadowy  hill. 


IK 

-      'I! 
J 

I 

•* 
11 


I     1 


l! 

■i>    - 

11 


ill 


26 


EARTH   DEITIES 


ft 


t 

I 
I 


I 


I 


I 

I 

I 


II 
i 


From  craggy  peak  to  sounding  coast 
Range  Fr  na  and  her  teeming  host. 

(She  sets  free  the  dog.) 

The  timid  doe,  the  startled  hare, 
Flee  or  lie  hidden  in  my  care. 

When  all  the  swampy  barrens  ring 
With  the  first  chorus  of  the  spring, 

It  is  my  voice  that  sounds  the  note 
For  every  wild  inflated  thro.*t. 

When  the  first  swallow  skims  the  blue, 
It  is  my  smile  he  answers  to. 

The  wild  hawk  wheeling  ring  on  ring, 
Poised  as  I  taught  on  tilted  wing 

Above  the  perilous  ravine, 
Mounts  to  his  pinnacle  unseen. 

The  dragon-fly  along  the  stream 

Moves  like  a  shuttle  through  my  dream. 

The  lumbering  bear  that  roves  the  wood 
Includes  me  in  his  solitude. 


EARTH   DEITIES 


27 


The  squirrel  on  the  bending  spray 
Leaps,  and  is  gone  my  leafy  way. 

My  young  fox  clears  the  orchard  wall 
As  lightly  as  a  thistle-ball. 

Through  magic  dusks  on  moonlit  lawns 
I  frolic  with  my  dancing  fauns. 

But  first  of  all  my  tribes  I  place 
The  man-cub  with  his  laughing  face. 

Like  a  young  wood-god  starry-eyed 
He  moves  before  me  in  his  pride. 

Subduer  of  the  land  and  sea, 

He  leads  life's  wondrous  pageantry, 

Till  I  behold  him  pass  from  sight 
Through  the  mysterious  door  of  night; 

And  I  who  all  his  joys  have  known, 
Am  left  here  by  his  altar  stone. 

While  sorrow  with  the  long  gray  rain 
Settles  upon  the  darkening  plain, 


i  ! 
^1 


i'  j; 


lit   i 


i  '1 


■?  ii 


28 


EARTH    DFITIES 


\il 


u 


I! 


n 


If 


The  Student  stands  xiith  head  bowed 
down,  while  Fauna  quickly  vanishes  to  the 
right. 

The  Student 

Ah,  what  is  man?    What  power  ordains 
The  unresting  impulse  in  his  veins, 

Which  drives  him  on  from  hope  to  hope 
Through  time's  immeasurable  scope? 

A  spirit  radiant  as  day. 
Illumining  its  house  of  clay, 

With  an  unquenchable  desire 
That  must  forevermore  aspire  I 

The  wind  that  lifts  the  dust  of  spring 
And  makes  the  murmuring  pines  to  sing, 

Blowing  o'er  every  land  and  sea 
Is  not  more  glad  of  being  free. 

Psyche  appears  on  the  rising  ground  above 
the  altar,  slowly  moving  down.  The  Student 
speaks  the  lines  that  follozv. 


EARTH  DEITIES 


29 


Psyche 
Tender  as  wind  of  summer 
That  wanders  among  the  flowers, 
Down  worldly  aisles  with  enchanted  smiles 
She  leads  the  mysterious  hours. 

This  is  immortal  Psyche, 
The  winged  soul  of  man,  — 
Ardor  unspent  and  innocent 
As  when  the  world  began. 

Out  of  the  ancient  silence 

Over  the  darkling  earth. 

As  streamers  swim  on  the  sunrise  rim, 

She  moves  between  sorrow  and  mirth. 

The  impulss  of  things  eternal, 

The  transport  hidden  in  clay. 

Like  a  dancing  beam  on  a  noonday  stream, 

She  signals  along  the  way. 

Her  feet  are  poised  over  peril. 
Her  eyes  are  familiar  with  death. 
Her  radiant  wings  are  daring  things. 
Frail  as  the  beat  of  a  breath. 


i     I 

H      t 


:i;i. 


30 


EARTH   DEITIES 


' 


!i 


I 
f 

I 


h 


Over  the  ocean  of  being, 

In  her  gay  incredible  flight, 

See  her  float  and  run  in  the  gold  of  thi  sun, 

Down  to  the  gates  of  night. 

The  storm  may  darken  above  her, 

The  surges  thunder  below. 

But  on  through  a  rift  where  the  gold  lights 

drift, 
Still  she  will  dancing  go, 

Treasuring  things  forgotten, 
As  dreams  and  destinies  fade; 
Spirit  of  truth  and  ageless  youth. 
She  laughs  and  is  not  afraid. 

(She  dances  off  to  the  left.) 

The  Student 
Surely,  far  off  on  the  morning's  verge, 
I  hear  the  great  sea  thunder  and  surge ! 

In  a  lull  of  the  wind  that  wanders  by 
I  hear  the  haunting  and  eerie  cry 

Of  the  wild  white  riders  of  the  foam 
And  the  sound  of    their    coursers    trampling 
home. 


EARTH    DEITIES 


31 


O  dancing  joy  of  the  might  of  the  sea, 
Wilt  thou  not  for  once  take  form  for  mc, 

And  flash  from  the  spray  and  the  flying  spume 
That  rides  on  the  slope  of  the  beryl  gloom, 

When  the  breaking  billows  hiss  and  roar, 
And  the  daring  combers  race  for  shore! 

Beroe  springs  upon  the  scene  from  the  right. 
A  solo  voice  and  chorus  of  scene. 

Beroe 

Beroe,  daughter  of  Ocean, 
Foam  of  the  wave  is  she! 
On  the  crest  of  the  racing  billows 
Shoreward  her  white  feet  flee. 

Crowding,  breaking,  and  tossing, 
Her  cloud-white  stallions  run. 
While  poised  on  their  curving  shoulders 
See  her  dance  in  the  dazzling  sun! 

Glad,  glad  to  the  open  heaven. 
On  the  track  of  the  coursing  tides. 
To  the  sound  of  their  trampied  thunder 
With  their  flying  manes  she  rides. 


t'  li 


I'j 


I  i 


i-  \ 


i;    1 


li^ 


32 


EARTH    DEITIES 


The  slope  of  the  beach  is  before  them, 
The  hurrying  legions  behind, 
But  her  hands  are  light  on  the  bridle, 
Her  feet  are  soft  as  the  wind. 

Up,  up  on  the  far-flung  shingle 
To  the  edge  of  the  dunes  they  go, 
To  pause  for  a  melting  moment 
And  swirl  like  a  wraith  of  snow. 

Then  back  for  the  slow  recover 
Their  shattered  charge  recedes. 
And  she  passes  the  gates  of  sundown. 
On  the  necks  of  her  plunging  steeds. 

She  dances  off  to  the  right. 

The  Student 

O  sea-soul,  follow  your  restless  tides, 

V/hile  peace  in  the  bosom  of  ear'^h  abides  I 

{He  seats  himself  on  a  fallen  tree.) 

From  the  pointed  firs  on  the  western  hill 
Our  earth-born  farewells  follow  you  still. 


EARTH   DEITIES 


33 


Now  the  sun-warm  wind  from  a  harvest  field 
Comes  with  the  breath  of  the  fragrant  yield, 

Is  it  the  sheen  of  glimmering  feet 

That  runs  on  the  crests  of  the  rippling  wheat? 

Where  is  the  fervour  heroic  born 

That  guards  the  youth  of  the  standing  corn, 

And  brings  its  trophies  when  all  is  o'er 
Without  regret  to  the  threshing  floor? 

Ceres  walks  on  from  the  left  surrounded 
by  a  glory  of  sunlight.  The  Student  slips 
to  a  kneelinij  posture  before  her. 

Ceres 

I  am  the  daughter  of  earth  and  sun; 
In  the  dusk  I  dream ;  in  the  wind  I  run. 

I  touch  the  fields  with  a  greening  fire. 
And  the  yellow  harvest  is  my  desire. 

When  over  hill  comes  the  silver  rain, 
I  spring  with  joy  of  the  springing  grain. 


34 


EARTH    DKHIF.S 


\fl 


The  farmlands  love  mc,  the  acres  know 
Promise  and  fragrance  where  I  go. 

Over  the  furrows  I  wave  my  hand, 

And  gladness  walks  through  the  plenteous  land. 

Through  all  the  valleys  at  golden  morn 
My  garments  sweep  with  the  rustling  corn. 

The  laughing  meadows  from  hill  to  sea 
For  a  thousand  years  have  been  glad  of  me. 

And  never  came  home  a  harvest  load 
That  passed  not  Ceres  upon  the  road. 

When  billows  run  in  the  surging  rye, 

I  race  with  their  shadows  against  the  sky, 

Lifting  the  song  of  the  mother  kind; 
And  the  scarlet  poppies  troop  behind. 

Then  when  the  far-spent  rivers  croon 
To  the  rising  shield  of  the  harvest  moon, 

With  all  the  p<.od  well  won  from  harm 
I  come  at  last  to  the  reaper's  arm, 


EAKTII   DF.ITlilS 


35 


I  sink  to  the  ground,  my  senses  dim, 
And  I  give  my  life  for  a  gift  to  him. 

She  walks  atcay  to  the  r'lyht,  leaving  TuE 
Student  mth  buxicd  head. 


The  Student 

Lightly  wc  value  the  gifts  of  I<:arth, 

And  the  things  that  perish  to  gisc-  !ifc  worth! 

For  every  sheaf  in  the  whcatficld  lies 
Spent  in  magnanimous  sacrifice. 

The  great  unsorrowing  sun  shines  on; 
The  young  grass  springs  where  the  scythe  has 
gone; 

The  redolent  air  is  sweet  and  bland. 

As  the  rivers  sing  through  the  quiet  land. 

The  vineyards  slope  to  the  sunburnt  hill, 
And  the  clustered  grapes  hang  full  and  still, 

Where  soon  the  gatherers  will  appear 

To  crown  with  rejoicing  the  yield  of  the  year. 


36 


EARTH   DEITIES 


Music  is  heard  from  the  hill.  The  Student, 
listening  and  looking  far  off  toward  the  hill, 
speaks  the  lines  that  follow. 

Bacchus  I  .  .  .    Bacchus!  .  .  .   Bacchus  I  .  .  . 
Bacchus  1 

Hark  to  the  drums  I 

Hark  to  the  drums  I 

The  dance  of  the  lord  of  the  vintage  comes. 

Out  of  the  wood  and  down  the  hill 

The  rioters  follow  with  rapture  shrill. 

Youth  and  maid 

In  that  mad  parade 

Leap  for  joy  in  the  flickering  shade. 

The  strongest  reel,  and  the  weak  grow  wan, 

And  the  maddest  maenad  leads  them  on. 

Her  heart  is  bare. 

Her  loosened  hair 

Is  a  mist  of  gold  on  the  violet  air. 

Beauty  aflame,  she  marches  by, 

Child  of  the  thyrsus  borne  on  high. 

Her  eyes  a-shine. 
She  is  half  divine 


EARTH   DEITIES 


37 


With  the  rhythmic  dance  and  the  mystic  wine ; 
While  the  grapes  upheld  in  her  gleaming  hand 
Are  an  ensign  of  mirth  to  her  reckless  band. 

Living  as  fire 

No  time  can  tire, 

Or  a  scarlet  lily's  unshamed  desire, 

Her  wine-hued  mouth  and  ivory  knees 

Flash  in  her  sunlit  ecstasies. 

Trembling  clear 

As  a  joyous  fear. 

The  soft  insidious  flutes  draw  near; 

While  madder,  madder,  madder  comes 

The  frensied  throb  of  the  choric  drums. 

Thfe  call  of  the  crowd 

Is  fond  and  loud. 

As  she  tosses  before  them  wild  and  proud. 

"  Faster,  faster,  faster,"  they  cry. 

As  the  god  with  a  ravishing  smile  goes  by. 


Bacchus  I  .  . 
Bacchus  I 


Bacchus  I 


Bacchus  I 


38 


EARTH   DEITIES 


Bacchante 

The  Student  moves  up  scene  where  a 
crowd  of  revellers  rushing  past  bear  him  off, 
while  Bacchante  dances  on  scene,  decorates 
the  altar,  and  dances  off  to  the  right  as  the  stu- 
dent returns. 

The  Student 

Spirit  of  all  the  grape-hung  South, 

With  the  kiss  of  the  world  on  thy  wilful  mouth, 

Whose  gladness  moves  in  our  veins  like  fire 
Unleashing  the  soul  to  her  dear  desire, 

Pass,  wild  dancer,  but  leave  behind 
The  pattern  of  joy  for  our  feet  to  find  I 

Thy  sister  spirit  breathes  her  balm 

From  Northern  orchards  mellow  and  calm. 

Where  temperate  airs  make  strong  and  good 
The  life  that  rises  in  sap  and  blood. 

And  spreads  the  bounty  of  her  hand 
Over  the  tranquil  autumn  land. 


EARTH   DEITIES 


39 


Pomona  enters  from  the  left. 

Pomona 

Now  my  festival  is  here, 
Harvest  sun  and  hunter's  chc 

I  Pomona  make  my  round 

Of  each  fruit-lit  orchard  ground, 

Bidding  for  my  dance  draw  near 
Every  fruit-stained  harvester. 

A  chorus  of  Harvesters  enter,  carrying  fruits, 
pipes,  and  cymbals,  dancing  and  singing. 

Where  like  lamps  the  apples  han;. 
Gay  with  autumn's  tinge  and  tang,^ 

Here  the  patterned  maze  we  tread. 
Through  the  shade  by  color  led. 

Ruddy  tint,  through  every  vein 
Carry  the  patrician  strain. 

Till  each  cheek  shall  wear  the  sign 
Of  its  origin  divine. 


!tli 


40 


EARTH   DEITIES 


li 


Golden  glow  of  molten  sun 
Caught  in  globes  the  year  has  spun, 

Spread  the  glory  of  thy  spell, 
That  the  land  may  love  thee  well  I 

Darkening  tent  of  royal  blue 

With  the  pale  stars  peeping  through, 

Shed  new  wisdom  for  the  wise 
From  your  sky-brewed  sorceries  I 

Exeunt  Harvesters.    Pomona  continues. 

Now  the  pipes  and  cymbals  fade 
With  the  dancers  down  the  glade. 

Still  the  loitering  sun  delays, 
And  I  linger  by  the  ways, 

Dreaming,  while  the  crickets  sing. 
Of  Vertumnus  and  the  spring. 

She  walks  away  to  the  left,  where  a  large 
white  moon  is  seen.  The  sun  is  going  down  to 
the  right. 


EAP.Tfl    DFJTIES 


41 


Thk  Student 

Spirits  of  the  dreamful  earth, 
Celebrants  at  beauty's  birth, 

Ministering  to  the  sight 
Of  the  seekers  of  the  light. 

Marshalling  for  the  sun's  eye 
His  diurnal  pageantry, — 

Visions,  how  ye  still  endure 
To  inspire  and  allure  I 

And  upon  the  brink  of  night, 

Hark,  what  footsteps  fleet  and  light, 

The  summer  woodland's  fairest  child, 
T:     Mushing  spirit  of  the  wild! 

Daphne  is  seen  running  back  and  forth 
among  the  trees  on  the  hill,  and  then  on  to  the 
scene.  The  Student  conceals  himself  as  she 
approaches.  Two  following  Nymphs  appear  at 
the  forest's  edge  and  speak. 


4^ 


EARTH    DEITIES 


1^ 


Daphne 

Through  the  shadowy  aisles  she  flees 
From  the  ardour  of  the  sun; 
Straining  throat  and  trembling  knees 
Scarce  can  bear  her  farther  on. 

Great  Selene,  kind  and  cold, 
Hide  her  in  thy  silver  light 
Of  enchantment,  fold  on  fold, 
Lest  she  perish  in  affright! 

Mother  of  the  frail  in  heart, 
To  thy  forest  she  is  come. 
Let  the  tender  branches  part. 
And  their  twilight  take  her  home. 

Let  her  wilding  bed  be  made 
By  a  mossy  beech-tree  bole, 
Deep  within  its  healing  shade. 
Soon,  come  soon,  that  saving  goal  I 

Speak,  oh,  speak  the  holy  ban. 
And  thy  spell  about  her  shed! 
Faster  reels  the  darkening  span. 
Fiercer  burns  the  nameless  dread. 


EARTH    DEITIES 


43 


Ah,  thy  breath  begins  to  cool 
All  her  beauty  with  its  balm ! 
Here  beside  a  darkling  pool, 
(Like  thy  beam  within  its  calm,) 

She  who  Daphne  was  of  yore, 
Changed  by  thy  mysterious  might, 
Now  is  Laurel  evermore. 
Gleaming  through  the  tranquil  night. 

She  goes  off  among  the  trees  at  the  right,  the 
Nymphs  following  her.  The  Student  reap- 
pears, approaches  the  stone,  botvs  his  head  and 
bends  his  knee,  and  sinks  upon  the  step,  resting 
his  head  against  the  altar. 


fi 


The  Student 

What  riches  out  of  Nature's  day 
Ch-^er  the  dreamer  on  his  way, 

Till  his  loving  heart  is  bowed 
With  the  memories  that  crowd! 

And  he  bends  a  pilgrim  knee, 
Thankful  for  felicity, 


44 


EARTH   DEITIES 


h 

Hi! 


J 


While  his  care-freed  senses  bless 
The  solace  of  the  wilderness. 

Where  the  town's  distractions  pale, 
Dusk  has  drawn  a  silver  veil, 

And  the  glamour  of  the  moon 
Takes  its  convert  in  a  swoon, — 

Carries  him  by  drowsy  streams 
To  the  borderland  of  dreams. 

He    falls    asleep.     Vertumnus    reappears 
from  the  left. 

Vertumnus 

From  sunset  hills  to  the  sunrise  sea, 
I  am  the  lore  and  the  ecstasy, 

The  gladdening  strength  and  the  urge  of  things, 
Unaged  by  love  of  a  thousand  springs. 

The  snow-white  Foam  and  the  silver  Rain, 
The  wilding  Mother,  the  bending  Grain, 

Laurel  and  Vine  and  river  Reed, 

And  the  Soul  of  Man,  are  mine  indeed. 


EARTH   DEITIES 


45 


I  touch  them  all  with  greening  fire, 

And  bring  them  at  last  to  their  hearts'  desire. 

My  triumph  awaits  the  harvest  moon, 
When  the  grain  is  ripe  and  the  grass-heads 
swoon. 

Where  slumberous  poppies  nod  and  burn, 
As  summer  comes  to  her  drowsy  turn. 

Then  all  the  laboring  earth  has  rest, 
And  I  sink  to  sleep  on  Pomona's  breast. 

As  Vertumnus  alludes  to  each  deity,  she 
appears  among  the  trees;  Psyche  on  the  hill 
above  the  altar;  to  the  right  from  hack  to  front 
Ceres,  Daphne,  Bacchante  and  Beroe;  and 
to  the  left  Iris,  Fauna,  Syrinx, — leaving  the 
front  place  for  Vo\^^^^\  who  enters  before  the 
last  couplet.  VerjUMNUS  goes  to  meet  her, 
and  they  all  assume  statuesque  poses.  The 
scene  is  gradually  dark'^ned  and  the  figures  dis- 
appear. The  Student  ivakes  and  prepares 
to  continue  his  journey.  Dawn  lights  grow, 
while  he  is  speaking,  until  one  shaft  falls  upon 
the  altar. 


46 


KARTfl  DDirins 


I 


TiiL  Student 

Where  arc  my  dreams  of  beauty  gone? 
This  air,  this  wood,  this  very  stone — 

The  same,  yet  not  the  samel     I  see 
Them  now  as  masks  of  deity. 

There  is  a  friendliness  of  light 
About  them  new  and  infinite; 

And  they  will  nevermore  appear 
The  alien  common  things  they  were. 

Another  dayl    The  silent  sun 
K'ndles  the  clod  it  falls  upon 

With  ecstasy,  and  li'    renews 
Itself  for  its  eternal  use. 

And  now  for  me  henceforth,  behold 
A  world  that  is  not  as  of  old! 


In  every  face  I  shall  descry 
Some  glimpses  of  divinity. 


EARTH   DEITFKS 


47 


The  laundry  girl  with  bare  white  throat 
And  lyric  step,  and  hair  afloat, 

Is  Beroc,  who  comes  to  bless 

The  town  with  her  fresh  loveliness. 

The  shabby  model's  perfect  face 
Smiles  on  with  Ceres'  generous  grace. 

One  voice  with  its  caressing  tone 
Wild,  soft,  and  sad,  is  Syrinx'  own. 

Old  Apple  Mary  at  her  stall 
Is  not  her  dingy  self  at  all. 

But  great  Pomona  in  disguise. 

And  the  old  dame  with  earth-brown  eyes 

Who  tends  the  bird-shop,  with  its  shelf 
Of  injured  ones,  is  Fauna's  self. 

The  grapes  upon  the  fruiterer's  stand 
Were  tended  by  Bacchante's  hand. 

O  world  of  dusk  where  dreams  are  born. 
To  grow  to  wisdom  with  the  morn  1 


M 


48 


EARTH    DEITIES 


I  t 


Our  visions  pass,  but  their  truth  remains. 
So  man  aspires  and  attains.    .    .    . 

Back  by  the  green  and  shadowy  road 
To  carry  the  news  from  the  gods'  abode! 

'^  '- .        with  me  along  the  way, 

a  spread    thy    glamour    through    town 
^-day, 

That  folk  in  the  dreariest  plight  may  see 
Some  kind  revelation  of  deity  I 

CURTAIN 


t\ 


CHILDREN  OF  THE  YEAR 


"1 
i 


11- 


CHILDREN  OF  THE  YEAR 

PERSONS  IN  THE  MASQUE 

Mother  Earth 
The  Twelve  Months 
Their  Twelve  Escorts 
Time,  a  silent  figure. 

Overture  with  bells  and  chimes  in  celebra- 
tion of  the  new  year. 

The  curtain  rises  on  a  wild  place  among  the 
hills  in  starlight.  A  stronger  white  light  cen- 
tres about  a  symbolistic  figure  of  Mother 
Earth,  who  is  seated  xvith  the  Maiden  Janu- 
ary in  her  embrace. 

Each  Month  in  turn,  as  she  is  introduced, 
enters  and  holds  the  stage  with  characteristic 
motion,  {pantomime,  and  dance,)  to  appropri- 
ate music,  to  which  the  lines  are  sung.  She 
then  takes  her  place  on  the  stage  near  Earth 
and  joins  in  the  succeeding  singing. 

Each  Month  radiates  her  ozvn  peculiar  light 
and  atmosphere  upon  her  scene. 

51 


52 


EARTH   DEITIES 


Mother  Earth 
Here's  young  January, 
As  fresh  as  a  fairy, 

As  wondering  shy  as  a  child  that  is  lost. 
With  bells  on  her  sleigh. 
She  has  come  a  long  way, 
And  her  kind-hearted  nurse  is  old  lady  Frost. 

You  are  welcome,  my  dear! 
The  music  you  h6ar. 

Is  folk  celebrating  the  day  of  your  birth. 
Your  sister  months  greet  you, 
And  hasten  to  meet  you. 
As  you  stand  at  the  knee  of  your  fond  Mother 
Earth. 

February 
Here's  February  coming 
Through  the  crystal-coated  trees; 
Her  cloak  is  fringed  with  icicles 
That  clink  about  her  knees; 
She  is  young  and  debonair. 
With  snowdust  in  her  hair, 
A-flashing  by  on  silver  skates 
Or  on  her  winged  skis. 


CHILDREN  OF   THE  YEAR 


53 


Her  roads  are  all  unbroken, 

Her  woods  are  in  a  trance, 

But  there's  mischief  in  her  laughter. 

And  daring  in  her  glance. 

This  saucy  Miss  of  mine 

Has  seen  her  Valentine, 

And  they  will  lead  the  carnival 

With  domino  and  dance. 

The  drifts  are  in  the  meadow. 

The  snow  is  on  the  hill. 

Along  the  waiting  valleys 

The  days  are  white  and  still. 

But  a  smile  is  on  her  lip. 

As  the  eaves  begin  to  drip, 

For  soon  the  Harlequin  of  Spring 

Will  peep  across  her  sill. 


March 


Now  here  comes  blowsy  March, 
With  petticoats  a-starch, 
A-hurrying  to  market  through  the  mud,  mud, 
mud. 


54 


EARTH    DEITIES 


She  bears  a  peck  of  dust, 
Wears  a  veil  of  icy  crust, 
And  all  the  sugar  maples  arc  in  bud,  bud,  bud. 

She  travels  with  a  gale 
That  goes  roaring  in  the  sail, 
And  sets  the  wires  singing  in  the  blow,  blow, 
blow. 

The  noons  are  almost  warm, 
There  is  not  a  sign  of  storm. 
And  then  in  half  an  hour  comes  the  snow,  snow, 
snow. 


You  may  hear  the  melting  rain 
At  midnight  on  the  pane, 
Then  down  will  go  the    mercury    to    freeze, 
freeze,  freeze. 

And  when  up  comes  the  sun 
To  see  what  has  been  done, 
He  finds  a  shower  of  diamonds  on  the  trees, 
trees,  trees. 


II' 
Ji 

I' 

I 


Then  all  about  the  town 
There  are  people  falling  down, 


CHILDREN  OF   THE  YEAR 


m 


55 


Until  the  glary  streets  are  turned  to  slush, 
slush,  shush. 

When  all  the  winds  grow  still 
Along  the  misty  hill. 
You're  sure  to  hear  a  bluebird  through  the 
hush,  hush,  hush. 

April 

Shining,  shining  April, 
With  the  merry  mouth  I 
When  the  sighing  rain-wind 
Sets  from  the  south, 
A  light  is  on  her  brow, 
And  a  tear  is  on  her  cheek. 
While  with  sun  and  showers 
She  plays  at  hide  and  seek. 

Shining,  shining  April, 
With  the  shadow  eyes. 
Eager  with  compassion, 
Melting  with  surprise. 
Twilight  soft  about  her, 
Violets  on  her  breast. 
Welcomed  at  each  open  door 
As  a  radiant  guest. 


m 


I'll 


56 


EARTH   DEITIES 


Shining,  shining  April, 
With  the  woodland  voice, 
Bidding  all  the  rivers 
And  the  hills  rejoice. 
Every  living  creature 
Wakens  at  her  call, — 
Who  is  not  in  love  with  her 
Who  comes  with  love  for  all? 

1        May 

This  is  May  coming  now, 
With  the  blushing  apple  bough; 
And  her  swallows  skim  and  circle 
Where  the  heavy  oxen  plow. 

When  the  hurdy-gurdies  play. 
You  may  know  that  it  is  May 
With  all  her  budding  comrades 
A-trooping  up  this  way. 


There's  a  sound  of  marching  drums 
In  the  village  when  she  comes, 
The  lilacs  break  in  blossom 
And  every  beehive  hums. 


CHILDREN  OF  THE  YEAR 


57 


She  is  willowy  and  blonde, 
She  is  whimsical  and  fond, 
And  rules  her  willing  subjects 
With  a  wilful  fairy  wand. 

Beneath  a  chilly  sky 
There  is  fervor  in  her  eye. 
Though  she  has  a  changeful  temper. 
That  will  better  bye-and-bye. 

When  she  dances  with  a  lad. 
Her  beauty  drives  him  mad. 
And  when  she  trips  adown  the  street 
The  old  folks  all  are  glad. 

June 

This  is  June,  glory-eyed, 
Very  gracious  in  her  pride. 

And  how  fair  I 
Through  the  scented  dusk  she  goes. 
With  a  single  yellow  rose 

In  her  hair. 

And  every  garden  ground. 
Where  she  makes  her  happy  round 


^1 


'.'1 


58 


EARTH   DEITIES 


\-\ 


Hour  by  hour, 
Is  glad  of  her  caress 
And  her  twilight  hands  that  bless 

Every  flower. 

She  loiters  by  the  stream, 
Where  the  idle  rushes  dream 

Time  away. 
As  she  bends  and  turns  her  face, 
They  imitate  her  grace, 

As  they  sway. 

When  she  hears  her  minstrel  thrush 
Through  the  purple  evening  hush. 

Hearts  unfold. 
As  she  drops  her  veil  of  dew, 
Romance  is  shining  through. 

Still  untold. 


m 


f 


July 

This  is  opulent  July, 
And  as  she  passes  by, 
There  is  triumph  in  >    t  bearing 
And  bewitchment  in  .  -'r  eye. 


CHILDREN  OF   THE   YEAR 


59 


There  is  freedom  in  her  style, 
And  adventure  in  her  smile; 
She  travels  with  the  roving  bees 
O'er  many  a  sunny  mile. 

From  the  mountains  to  the  shore, 
She  has  lovers  by  the  score ; 
Every  summer  they  are  captured 
By  her  beauty  as  of  yore. 

See  her  saunter  down  the  be/ch. 
Just  beyond  the  breakers'  reach. 
With  the  figure  of  a  sea-nymph 
And  the  color  of  a  peach. 

See  her  standing  on  a  ledge 
At  a  mountain's  dizzy  edge. 
Or  following  a  river 
With  the  iris  and  the  sedge. 

A  month  is  like  a  day 
In  the  glamour  of  her  sway. 
And  every  heart  goes  singing 
Down  her  green  enchanted  way. 


>t<i 


I  ] 
I  -1 

f  1 


i.  3 


6o 


EARTH   DEITIES 


August 

This  is  tawny  Auf^st, 
She  who  wanders  by, 
Where  the  hot  cicada 
Shrills  his  dusty  cry. 

Trailing  misty  garments 
Through  the  sultry  land, 
With  a  swinging  censer 
In  her  languorous  hand; 

Slow  of  foot  she  passes 
Down  the  village  street, 
Where  the  tiger-lilies 
Slumber  in  the  heat. 

But  the  eager  children 
Spy  her  passing  there, 
With  a  scarlet  poppy 
In  her  golden  hair; 

And  they  troop  behind  her. 
Till  a  place  is  found 
Where  the  shade  is  dancing 
Patterns  on  the  ground. 


r  i 


CHILDREN  OF  THE  YEAR 


6l 


Homeward  then  she  leads  them, 
Touched  with  dreams  anew, 
Through  the  trance  of  evening 
And  her  drenching  dew. 


W 


*.'i 


September 

September  is  a  lady 
Of  fine  patrician  mien. 
Her  gown  is  harvest  yellow. 
Her  cloak  is  apple  green. 

And  when  she  comes  a-walking 
Serenely  from  the  west. 
The  clover's  to  her  shoe-top, 
The  wheat  is  to  her  breast; 

The  corn  in  tasselled  plenty 
Is  higher  than  her  chin; 
They  vie  with  one  another 
To  be  her  next  of  kin. 

She  smiles  on  little  Clover, 
She  bows  to  stately  Corn, 
And  signals  waving  Whe  ♦^-ear 
Across  the  rosy  morn. 


62 


EARTH   DF.ITIE8 


;  I 


I 


Ml  { 

I  iff.    I 


She  halts  beside  the  orchard 
To  watch  the  squirrels  play, 
And  with  the  idling  sunlight 
She  tarries  on  the  way. 

The  sky  Is  clear  above  her; 
But  when  she  turns  to  go, 
From  somewhere  in  the  mountains 
The  storms  begin  to  blow. 

October 

October  is  a  gipsy  girl 
With  hair  a-blow  and  cheek  of  tan, 
Who  at  the  sign  of  frost  appears 
With  her  gay-colored  caravan. 

The  thin  blue  smoke  of  morn  reveals 
Her  camp-fire  in  the  distant  hills; 
At  noon  she  climbs  the  wooded  slope 
Or  lingers  by  the  cider  mills. 

In  tattered  gold  and  faded  red. 
She  bears  her  beauty  like  a  queen; 
And  lonely  valleys  hear  afar 
The  sounding  of  her  tambourine. 


CHILDREN  OF  THE  YEAR 


63 


It  is  the  song  of  rocky  streams 
Through  frosty  groves  of  heech  and  fir; 
It  is  the  danc:  of  yellow  leaves 
That  whirl  a  tarantelle  with  her. 

Along  the  rond  where  she  must  wend 
The  sumacs  with  their  torches  run, 
And  overhead  the  crimson  oaks 
Are  gorgeous  tents  against  the  sun. 

And  when  sh».  turns  a  Ir'^athless  face 
To  where  the  coiJ  hi      mountains  stand, 
Lo,  Twilight  lirops   1      -unp;  new  moon 
Like  minted  silver  in  her  hand. 


NoVtMBER 

November,  a  Puritan  maiden, 

Is  sober  in  white  and  grey; 

But  her  quiet  wear  has  a  hi}j;h-bred  air, 

Her  heart  is  dreamful  and  gay. 

Veiled  in  the  grey  of  snow-clouds, 
Gowned  in  the  grey  of  trees. 
With  cap  as  white  as  a  frosty  night 
And  step  like  a  rising  breeze. 


i  \ 


64 


EARTH  DEITIES 


It'   '■' 


Ik  I 

I 

lis- 


She  mellows  the  fruits  of  the  garden, 
She  treasures  the  strength  of  the  vine, 
And  all  the  worth  of  the  yield  of  the  earth 
She  sweetens  with  power  benign. 

She  battles  with  wind  and  weather, 
She  cheers  the  denuded  ranks 
Of  branches  bare  to  the  wintry  air, 
And  for  vigor  of  life  gives  thanks. 

She  hears  in  the  starry  midnight 

The  honking  geese  go  by, 

And  her  spirit  it  stirred  by  that  warning  word 

Of  the  journey  across  the  sky. 


I 


Then  as  the  great  storms  gather 

And  shrieking  winds  arise. 

There's  a  breath  of  prayer  on  the  freezing  air. 

And  a  love-light  in  her  eyes. 

December 

{Disguised  as  an  old  woman) 

Make  way  for  old  December, 
Bowed  like  a  shivering  crone. 


I'll 


CHILDREN  OF  THE  YEAR 


65 


As  she  scurries  down  the  highway, 
Her  skirts  about  her  blown. 

And  huge  upon  her  shoulder, 
What  means  the  mighty  sack? 
It  is  an  inky  storm-cloud 
She  carries  on  her  back. 

Ah,  see,  the  sack  is  leaking  I 
She's  losing  half  her  load, — 
A  trail  of  fluttering  snowflakes 
Swirls  all  along  the  road. 

They  sweep  across  the  common, 
And  drive  along  the  hill; 
They  settle  in  the  dooryard 
And  whiten  every  sill; 

They  trim  the  trees  with  laces, 
The  paths  are  out  of  sight, 
The  sagging  wires  are  festooned 
Like  garlands  soft  and  white. 

This  is  December's  witchwork; 
And  when  her  task  is  done, 
She  will  have  made  a  white  world 
To  greet  the  rising  sun. 


66 


EARTH   DEITIES 


Hereupon  Prince  Charming  enters  and  is 
presented,  followed  by  all  the  escorts  of  the 
various  months  appropriately  costumed,  who 
claim  their  partners  and  take  places  to  dance, 
while  Earth  continues, 


hi 

if 


!■■  = 


And  now,  January, 

Your  time  to  make  merry 

Is  come,  and  Prince  Charming  has  asked  for 

your  hand. 
Though  youngest  of  all, 
You  are  belle  of  the  ball. 
And  shall  lead  the  festivities  over  the  land. 

You  shall  dance  through  the  night, 

By  the  pale  Northern  Light, 

While  the  stars  in  a  spangled  processiori  go  by. 

Make  merry,  my  dears, 

With  the  joy  of  the  years; 

For  gladness  abides,  though  the  hours  must  fly. 

At  the  conclusion  of  couple  dancing  ad  libi- 
tum all  join  in  a  symbolistic  dance,  which  is  ar- 
rested by  a  rising  sun,  and  the  figure  of  Time 
appearing.    Mother  Earth  announces, 


li 


CHILDREN   OF    THE   YEAR 


67 


Time  passes! 

The  shrouded  figure  of  Time  walks  slowly 
across  the  background,  from  right  to  left;  the 
sun  rises;  the  Months  form  in  line  in  due  order 
of  precedence,  August  leading,  face  to   the 
left,  and  move  slowly  across  the  stage  with 
Time.     The  youths  diiide,  and  fall  back  right 
and  left,  six  on  each  side,  taking  various  pre- 
scribed poses  of  dismay,  and  holding  them,  as 
January  reaches  centre  position  in  front  of 
Mother  Earth  who  sits  serenely  in  her  place. 
Final  music  is  heard  in  diminishing  strains  of 
the  dance  as  Curtain  falls. 


I 
i'i  i 


f 


I; 


Wi 


PAS  DE  TROIS 


.1 


.1 


It    i 


PAS  DE  TROIS 


persons  in  the  dance 

Pierrot 

Pierrette 

Columbine 

An  Organ-Grinder 

A  street  scene  in  spring.  An  Organ-grinder 
stands  playing  in  the  shade  of  a  tree  at  the 
edge  of  the  Common.  His  music  continues 
throughout  the  dance,  while  he  himself  takes 
the  part  of  a  Chorus. 

The  Organ-Grinder 

Now  Spring  is  laughing  down  the  street, 
With  music  for  her  dancing  feet, 

Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo, 
Who  ever  heard,  since  time  began 
Of  Spring  without  the  organ-man? 

Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo, 

Tel-oodle-ee,  tel-oodlel 
71 


72 


EARTH   DEITIES 


And  here's  that  vagabond  Pierrot, 
A-mummIng  in  a  suit  of  woe, 

Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo, 
Whatever  can  have  come  his  way 
To  put  him  out  of  love  to-day? 

Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo, 
Tel-oodle-ee,  tel-oodle! 


{Enter  Pierrot.) 

Pierrot 

Ah,  Ibve  alone, 
I  ask  no  morel 
I  Pierrot  1 
Though  love  be  mad, 
I  would  adore. 

A  thousand  years 
Were  not  enough 
For  Pierrot, 
If  only  I 
May  live  in  love  1 

But  if  this  life 
No  love  can  give 


i«i'' 


PAS  DE  TROIS 


73 


To  Pierrot, 
A  moment  were 
Too  long  to  live. 

Ah,  there  is  none 
To  love  me  now. 
And  say,  "  Pierrot, 
Why  grievest  thou?" 


I 

i 


White  as  the  moon's 
Enchanted  fire, 
Burned  long  ago 
My  soul's  desire. 


But  now  all  life 
Is  changed  and  cold. 
There  is  no  joy 
As  once  of  old. 

There  is  no  hope. 
Nor  prayer  nor  vow, 
Can  save  the  soul 
Of  Pierrot  now. 


.. 


:M 


74 


EARTH   DEITIES 


r 

V. 

i: 


ii  ^ 

if 


I 


Ah,  well  I 

Life  still  is  life, 

And  hearts  are  brave, 

My  Pierrot, 
And  I  may  sing 
A  moonlit  stave! 

And  if  my  heart 
Can  mended  be, 

(Hold,  Pierrotl) 
ril  sing  no  more 
In  mockery. 

If  love  be  not 
Beyond  recall, 

(Sst,  Pierrotl) 
Perhaps  the  last 
Is  best  of  all. 

Ah,  well  I  ah,  well  I  ah,  well  I 
Ah,  well  1  ah,  well  I  ah,  well  I 
Ah,  well,  Pierrot! 


'V 


5x//.) 


PAS   DE  TR0I8 


75 


The  Organ-Grinder 

O  sad  is  love,  and  glad  is  love, 
A  nd  everlasting  mad  is  love, 

Tel'Oodle-oo,  teUoodle-oo, 
But  you  must  follow,  if  you  can, 
The  wisdom  of  the  organ-man. 

Tel-oodle-ee,  teUoodle! 

Tel-oodle-ee,  tel-oodle! 

There's  nothing  like  the  jolly  town 
In  Spring  to  turn  you  upside  down, 

Tel-oodle-oo,  lel-oodle-oo, 
And  make  you  want  to  join  the  clan 
That  dances  for  the  organ-man. 
Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo, 
Tel-oodle-ee,  tel-oodlel 

Here  comes  a  saucy  little  pet, 

The  glowing  gadabout,  Pierrette, 
Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo. 

As  fresh  as  tulips  in  the  pan. 

O  pity  the  poor  old  organ-man ! 
T^l-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo, 
Tel-oodle-ee,  tel-oodle/ 
(Enter  Pierrette.) 


i 


J. 


MICROCOPY   RESOLUTION   TEST  CHART 

(ANSI  and  ISO  TEST  CHART  No.  2) 


^  APPLIED  irvMGE    Inc 

:s;  1653  East   Main  Street 

r-S  Rochester.   New  York        14609       USA 

fS  (716)   482  -  0300  -  Pnone 

^B  (716)   288  -  5989  -  Fax 


'76 


EARTH   DEITIES 


r  I 


Pierrette 

The  shops  are  full  of  gossamers, 
The  hats  are  full  of  flowers, 
The  clouds  that  look  quite  innocent 
Are  capable  of  showers. 

I  feel  that  I  should  like  to  drift 
On  some  adventure  new, 
In  the  green  world  of  fairy-land, 
Or  Cupid's  garden  blue  1 

(Exit.) 

The  Organ-Grinder 

O  listen  to  the  music  play, 

For  that  can  take  you  far  away! 

Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo, 
You  do  not  need  a  moving  van. 
You  only  need  the  organ-man. 
Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo, 
Tel-oodle-ee,  tel-oodle! 

For  he  will  play,  and  you  shall  be 
Transported  to  Spring  mystery. 
Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo, 


PAS   DE  TROIS 


7? 


It  is  the  universal  plan 

For  moving,  says  the  organ-man. 
Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo, 
Tel-oodle-ee,  tel-oodlel 

X  dance  the  children  up  the  street, 
I  dance  the  watchman  on  his  beat, 

Tel'Oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo, 
I  dance  the  traveller  into  town, 
I  dance  away  the  angry  frown, 
Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo, 
Tel-oodle-ee,  tel-oodlel 

I  even  dance  the  sun  to  shine, 
When  April  comes — and  Columbine  1 

Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo. 
That  blush  of  roses  on  her  tan 
Betrays  her  to  the  organ-man. 
Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo, 
Tel-oodle-ee,  tel-oodlel 

{Enter  Columbine.) 

Columbine 

The  world  is  full  of  lilac  now, 
A  smile  is  in  the  sky, 


ti 


! 


It  ^ 


78 


EARTH   DEITIES 


And  in  my  heart  a  little  bird 
Is  singing  B-o-yl 

What  is  there  is  in  the  silly  song 
To  set  my  cheek  aglow  ? 
Can  it  be  love  that's  ailing  me? 
Pray,  master,  do  you  know? 

{Exit.) 

The  Organ-Mais 

It  can  be  nothing  else,  my  dear, 
When  Spring  is  in  the  atmosphere, 

Tel'Oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-00, 
You  know  it  only  needs  the  Spring 
To  make  us  all  to  love  and  sing. 
Tel-oodle-00,  tel-oodle-00, 
Tel-oodle-ee,  tel-oodle! 

Perhaps  you  never  heard  of  Pan? 

He  was  a  kind  of  organ-man, 
Tel-oodle-00,  tel-oodle-00, 

And  many  a  lady  in  the  Spring 

Encountered  his  philandering. 
Tel-oodle-00,  tel-oodle-oo, 
Tel-oodle-ee,  tel-oodle  1 


PAS  DE  TROIS 


79 


There  was  no  nymph  about  the  place, 
But  he  could  pipe  to  his  embrace. 

Tel'Oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo. 
I  often  wish  that  I  were  Pan, 
Instead  of  just  an  organ-man. 

Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo, 

Tel-oodle-ee,  tel-oodlel 

Re-enter  Pierrot,  Pierrette,  and  Colum- 
BI5je  from  different  directions,  for  their  trio 
dance. 

The  Organ-Man 

Now  here  comes  trouble  down  the  street  I 
Two  sweethearts  and  one  lover  meet. 

Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo. 
That  never  was  the  heavenly  plan 
Of  peace,  opines  the  organ-man. 

Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo, 

Tel-oodle-ee,  tel-oodle! 


First  he  approaches — Pierrette. 
But  she  is  not  an  angel  yet. 

Tel-oodle-oo,  tel  oodle-oo. 


8o 


EARTH   DEITIES 


She  will  not  speak  to  Columbine, 

In  whose  bright  eyes  the  tear-drops  shine. 

Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo, 

Tel-oodle-ee,  tel-oodlel 


J 

'I    ;    i< 
i   ll 


Hoity-toity,  what  a  scene  I 

Enter  the  Monster  with  Eyes  of  Green  I 

Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo. 
Did  ever  sage  or  harlequin 
Know  how  to  choose  or  how  to  win! 

Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo, 

Tel-oodle-ee,  tel-oodlel 


Alas,  that  ever  loves  should  be 
In  such  confused  proximity  1 

Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo. 
"  O,  be  as  wary  as  you  can  I 
One  at  a  time!"  says  the  organ-man. 
Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo, 
Tel-oodle-ee,  tel-oodlel 


U 


;f    1         ■'' 


One  pulls  him  this  way,  one  pulls  him  that. 

While  his  poor  heart  beats  rat-ta-ta-tat. 

Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo. 


PAS   DE  TROIS  8 1 


Either  or  neither,  when  both  are  so  fair, 
Is  enough  to  send  any  man  into  the  air. 

Tcl-oodle-oo,  tcl'Oodle-oo, 

Tel-oodle-ee,  tel-oodlel 

They  all  go  out  in  different  directions,  leav- 
ing the  Organ-Grinder  alone. 

O,  love  is  a  dance  to  a  roundelay  I 
It  may  last  an  hour  or  last  alway. 

Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo, 
But  how  it  will  end,  or  how  it  began, 
You  never  can  tell,  says  the  organ-man. 
Tel-oodle-oo,  tel-oodle-oo, — 

The  music  is  broken  off  abruptly  as  the  Or- 
gan-Grinder moves  on. 


J 


\   I 


1  i 
I  ; 


I.! 


NOTE 

The  following  suggeationt  for  the  cottumet  of  the 
Months  and  their  etcorts  may  be  of  service  in  ama- 
teur presentations  of  the  Children  of  The  Year,  and 
of  course  may  be  modified  or  changed  considerably 
at  rvill. 


THE    MONTHS 

January White  chiffon. 

Febeuary White    net    with    crystal    and    gold 

spangles. 

March Cold  sky-blue  with  cloud  grey,  mous- 

seline  de  soie. 

■Ai'ML Water-blue  and  pale  leaf-green,  mar- 
quisette. 

May Sky-blue  and  apple-blossom  pink  and 

white,  chiffon. 

June Yellow  and  rose  liberty  silk. 

J^^Y Shades  of  green  from  light  to  dark, 

chiffon  and  soft  silk. 

August Lilac  ana  gold,  chiffon  and  cloth  of 

gold. 

September Grain-yellow  and  apple-green,  mar- 
quisette. 

«3 


II 


[-■ 


llir 


84 EARTH   DEITIES 

October   Indian  reds  and  yellows,  voile. 

November Tree  grey,  chiffon  cloth  and  white 

organdie. 
December  .    ...White  cloth  with  swan's  down,  and 

dark  blue-grey  chiffon  cloak. 
Earth Shades  of  brown  crepe  de  chine  and 

chiffon. 
TiMB   Greys. 


THE    ESCORTS 

January,  Court  costume White  and  blue  velvet 

February,  Harlequin Greenish  gold 

March,  Midshipman Navy  blue 

April,  Minstrel Green  velvet  and  white 

May,  Country  Boy Brown  cloth  and  white 

June,  Artist Black  velvet  and  soft  shirt 

July,  Tennis  Player White  flannels 

August,  Yachtsman Navy  blue  and  white 

September,  Tramping  costume Tans  anu  jrown 

October,  Gipsy Purple  and  tan 

November,  Puritan Grey  and  white 

December,  Skater Red  and  white 


In  case  it  is  desirable  to  adapt  the  Masque  to  a 
larger  company  of  players,  each  Month  may  be  at- 
tended by  a  number  of  comrades  in  suitable  charac- 
ters, as  follows: 


EARTH   DFITIES  85 

Fkbhi  Anv A  group  of  carnival  merry-makers. 

March A  group  of  Winds. 

Aj'bil  ...    Spirits  of  Sun  and  Rain. 

Mav The  Spring  flowers,  dandelion,  applc- 

blossom,  plum-blossom,  etc. 

June   Roses  of  many  varieties. 

July Seo  nymphs  and  wood  nymphs. 

August A  compony  of  Picnickers. 

September Clover,  Com,  Wheat,  and  Fruits. 

October   A  company  of  Gipsies. 

November Spirits  of  the  Grey  Trees. 

December Snow  Fairies. 

January Prince  Charming  alone. 


[:« 


r 


>;  -^ 


"i"  ^-^ 


'^ 


